Newsletter 212


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[1]"Great Man" Theory Of Business
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      1. http://b.rw/g78JFv

Steve Rattner | FT | 19 January 2011

Steve Jobs at Apple. Jack Welch at GE. Lou Gerstner at IBM. The person at
  the top can make or break the company. Not least because great leaders build
  great teams. “A players hire A players, and B players hire B players.”

[2]Ask A Tunisian
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      2. http://b.rw/hVBSBt

Kate Cronin-Furman | Wronging Rights | 19 January 2011

Super-helpful interview with Anis Allagui, Tunisian expat living in North
  America, who gives a simple, clear, apparently well-informed explanation of
  recent events in his home country. Key point: so far, the army are the good
  guys

[3]Politics Of The Thumb
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      3. http://b.rw/hnR6hV

Will Davies | Potlatch | 19 January 2011

Anatomy of hand-gesture newly popular among British Labour politicians: the
  thumb-press. Make a fist, but lay your thumb over your index finger. "The
  user is not to be messed with, no matter how pleasant their thumb may
  appear"

[4]Under Paris
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      4. http://b.rw/gG6PSN

Neil Shea | National Geographic | 19 January 2011

Strap on a helmet, explore the tunnels beneath Paris. Where you may
  encounter bones, rats, geologists, mushrooms, bachelor parties, pockets of
  explosive gas, and a pond in the foundations of the Opera used for training
  firemen
            [5]View full selection
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Today's FiveBooks Interview

[6]Bernard Haykel on =YEMEN=
    Links:
      6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-haykel-on-yemen

Bernard  Haykel’s fascinating selection paints a worrying picture of a
  country  at  odds  with the cultural riches of its past. With internal
  conflicts  and  poor governance, Al Qaeda is the least of its problems
  [7]Continue reading…
    Links:
      7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bernard-haykel-on-yemen

Topic

[8]Israel Palestine
    Links:
      8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/israel-palestine-0

Browse interviews with Arab-Israeli specialists from Stephen Walt to Michael
  Goldfarb, and read selection of articles and lectures that our specialists
  have chosen to give an in-depth understanding of the conflict
  [9]Continue reading…
    Links:
      9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/israel-palestine-0

Book of the Day

[10]Arabian Sands
    Links:
      10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/arabian-sands-by-wilfred-thesiger

-by Wilfred Thesiger -

_Jo Tatchell says: _ This is about Wilfred’s post-war years in Arabia, a
  kind  of  homage  to T E Lawrence. Rich in detail, Arabian Sands is an
  evocation of a lost world of tribes, windswept dunes and the brotherhood he
  came to love and admire among the desert people.

[11]More recommendations…
    Links:
      11. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks

Browsings

[12]polit2k A  manifesto  for  the simple scribe – 25 commandments for
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